Thanksgiving in NYC
 

Hi everyone, My partner and I will be in Manhattan from 11/25 to 11/29. We have some plans, including trying to take in the Macy's parade, but we'd like some suggestions for eating on Thanksgiving (not too fancy or too pricey). Also, I haven't checked, but I am assuming that all of the museums are closed on T-day, but if you know otherwise, let me know!
Thanks!

I would start at www.opentable.com if I were you.

Schiller's does a thanksgiving dinner downtown.

http://www.schillersny.com/index.php

It is not listed on their website yet, though you could call. I believe it runs @ $40/pp, maybe $50.

A year old, but probably reasonably accurate on what's open on T'day
http://www.newyorkology.com/archives..._open_on_t.php

What do you want to eat on T'day? Traditional turkey dinner or something else?

You might try Fraunces Tavern down in the Wall St. area. The restaurant has quite a nice museum on the top floor.

Have a GREAT time while you are here.

Make reservations early if you want a traditional dinner. Restaurants will have specific seating times and usually fixed price meals - and fill up early.

Fraunces Tavern is historic and interesting and the food is fine - if not great. But there are a lot of other choices. Menupages.com also will have a list of places with a Thanksgiving dinner.

Be sure to see the balloons blows up the night before in the park next to the Museum of Nat'l History - but also be aware there will be MOBS - as there will for the parade (about a million viewers along the line of march).

I, too, would start at opentable.com.

How much do you want to pay? Many restaurants have a traditional Thanksgiving dinner. I ate at Artisinal last year for about $60 per person (we also got a good bottle of wine for a good price). It was not a cheap meal, but it was great, and not too fancy. But it was certainly a splurge.

Almost every local neighborhood restaurant will serve a Thanksgiving dinner for about $30 or less per person. For example, Benjamin, a little restaurant in my neighborhood, always serves Thanksgiving dinner, and it's usually quite good.

You do need to make reservations, but if you don't want to go to a top restaurant, then a week or so in advance is plenty of time. I booked at Artisinal about 2 weeks in advance last year, and it's a fairly popular. But I wanted to eat early.

For the last few years my husband and I have used Open Table to make our Thanksgiving Dinner reservations. They usually put out a list of places doing a price fix menu and we pick from there. We've gone to Nero & Cercle Rouge and were really happy with them both. By dinner time the crowds seemed to have gone away, plus both restaurants are away from the business of the city.

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